The Great Divide

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 5, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 10.

The Great Divide.—Exactly at the highest point of the divide of the Rocky Mountains, on the Crow's Nest Division of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia, is a hotel. When it rains in the mountains, the water which falls on the eastern slope of the hotel roof trickles down, joins a tiny rivulet which flows on, increasing by other rivulets, until its water mingles with the Atlantic; while the water falling on the other side of the roof flows westerly, and ultimately into the Pacific. It is just as narrow a line as this that decides the destinies of many lives. The change of a sixteenth of an inch in a rain-drop determines the place where it will ultimately come. The decision to do right in one of the smallest and seemingly inconsequential things of life may determine the entire character; at the great divide it seems such a little thing, but at the mouth of the foaming river it is altogether different. Would that every one bound for the kingdom of God could feel and know that every moral decision has within it the dividing line of character!